Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 2 | The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory . |
| 3 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 4 | He had to supervise dances he had arranged for Aida , one of the productions taken by the Covent Garden Opera to the Rhodes centenary celebrations . |
| 5 | It had been courteously framed , but Goibniu had arranged for Balor to go with them and Floy had known — and everyone had known — that it had not really been a request but a command . |
| 6 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 7 | Omar had arranged for Beyyene , a negadi or muleteer , to meet us at Mojjo Station , sixty miles down the line , with his men and twenty pack mules , and we sent Kassimi , Goutama and Makonnen ahead with our own animals to join him there . |
| 8 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 9 | Before Luke arrived back she had arranged for details and menus to be sent to her home address , and she was humming softly when he came in . |
| 10 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 11 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 12 | High Anglican architects such as William Butterfield ( 1814–1900 ) and George Edmund Street ( 1824–81 ) took up these ideas and produced a series of parish schools which combine simple planning and construction with details they had developed for church architecture . |
| 13 | Inevitably they are gory , more so again than those Savini , who had been a photographer in Vietnam before his movie career , had developed for Dawn . |
| 14 | This theory came close to some of the central ideas which Marx had developed for capitalism . |
| 15 | She felt relieved and began to express feelings she had hidden for years . |
| 16 | Women 's receipt of unemployment benefit automatically meant they had registered for work . |
| 17 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |
| 19 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 20 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 21 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 22 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 23 | There was some feeling that Beijing had been left behind while the rest of the country had marched for democracy . |
| 24 | When it was born rationing was a part of everyday life and people queued quietly for health care just as in the war they had queued for food . |
| 25 | Other member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) had pressed for EC recognition of Macedonia since January [ see pp. 38703-04 ] . |
| 26 | In the 1670s and 1680s commercial interests in London had pressed for war on the grounds that French expansionism , if left unchecked , would jeopardise England 's trading interests . |
| 27 | They became the guardians of the land , the scourge of any who tried to harm it , and every new generation issued out of Merkadale to take the place of those who had fallen for Minginish . |
| 28 | Katarina had fallen for Lucenzo first , that was obvious . |
| 29 | Johanna had fallen for Cavendish , one of the great lords of the land , who 'd broken her heart and destroyed her wits . |
| 30 | Nigel had fallen for Jill , the punky purple-haired girl at the garage . |